PORTSMOUTH, PORTSEA, AND GOSPORT HOSPITAL.
AT THE ANNUAL MEETING of the PORTSMOUTH, PORTSEA, and GOSPORT HOSPITAL, held on Monday, January 14th, 1850, in the Board Room of the Institution, Right Hon. the Lord GEO. LENNOX, in the Chair: the following Report, Accounts, and Resolutions were adopted and passed:—
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As the benefits of the Institution are not confined to the poor of Portsmouth, Portsea and Gosport, but are participated in by the Towns of Petersfield, Havant, Fareham, Emsworth and the adjacent villages, the continued sympathy and co-operation of the benevolent of all classes, and especially of the affluent gentry in those neighbourhoods, may, it is hoped, be reasonably expected. And the Committee earnestly invite all such as may not yet have assisted the good work, to accord their kind attention to its admitted usefulness
It is an Institution, which, like many others (God be praised) in our land, has been established upon christian principle, and which has, therefore, been undertaken and carried forward in the christian hope, that all, according to the power given them, will liberally contribute to its funds, under the assured conviction, that they who thus visit the sick brethren of Christ, visit Christ himself, and that in this cause especially His words are verified_
"It is more blessed to give than to receive."
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